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a snail.--{Shabbelool,} in Chaldee {tivlala,} the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic {balla,} to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction.
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Psalms 37:35; Psalms 37:36; Matthew 24:35; James 1:10 untimely.
Job 3:16; Ecclesiastes 6:3